Nazi Germany’s Bismarck and Tirpitz, along with the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato and Musashi, are some of the most famous battleships to see service during the Second World War. There were other ...

On Sept. 9, 1943, a massive bomb struck the battleship Roma, the largest ship in the Italian fleet. It was a devastating hit to its starboard side, punching through the hull and exploding near the ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century ...